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Southwind
02:46
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Southwind
Standing in the station at Jackson boulevard
I love to listen to the sound
The humming of the rail, like the wind behind a sail
Dreaming I could go and leave this town
(chorus)
South Wind
Blowing to my old Kentucky home
South wind
Wishing I had never left to roam
A child of seventeen, didn't know just want it means
To pack it up and leave my home behind
This factory life is cruel, got me working like a mule
This Windy City's made me so unkind
Walking down the sidetrack as she rolls into town
I love to hear that lonesome whistle whine
But when that factory whistle screams, I close my eyes and dream
I'm cruising down that L&N main line
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Boat On The Ocean
03:01
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Boat On The Ocean
Yesterday you told me
Another love you'd find
If I didn't give you reason
Enough to change your mind
I know the path that I've been taking
Ain't the man I want to be
Is it too late to say I'm sorry
Will you stay or will you leave?
(chorus)
Seems to me you're like a boat out on the ocean
Beaten by storms beyond the bay
I can see your silhouette on the horizon
Are you heading home or sailing far away?
We've got the kind of love
comes and goes with the tide
Always ends up on the shore
Where the waves and rocks collide
Yet another frozen morning
You're somewhere lost at sea
But I find myself here dreaming
That your lying next to me
(bridge)
Maybe with a tailwind
A little break in the weather
We could chart a course
That just might bring us back together
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West Montana Coal Camp
03:29
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West Montana Coal Camp
When the final days of winter
Bring brighter shades of green
Gray skies turn to blue
And usher in the spring
I'll make my way back down
From here on Rogers Pass
This Rocky Mountain winter
How much longer can it last
(chorus)
From a west Montana coal camp
On the Northern Railway line
Let the Fast Mail take my letter
To that one true love of mine
Digging coal out of the mountain
Down below it's dark and damp
Spent the frozen days of winter
Living in this mining camp
It was almost February
When the coldest winds did blow
The lowest one recorded
Down to seventy below
I'll be leaving in the springtime
When the weathers on my side
And the winter snow has melted
Up here on the great divide
Instead of just a letter
What I wish that I could do
Is jump aboard that train myself
And come on home to you
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Boot Hill Grave
03:27
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Boot Hill Grave
I told her that I wasn't gone to stay
When I headed out to California
The folks there mining her for gold
Had all the riches they could hold
Could have been the key to set this family free
From the shackles and the chains of poverty
When you make it through Nevada
And you see the bear flag wave
Then you know you're getting closer
To my lonesome Boot Hill grave
Rumors in the year of forty nine
Tales of riches filling up my mind
The promise of a better life
For my children and my wife
I rode the train as far as it would run
With nothing but a suitcase and a gun
I got into a card game with a man
Who held more than four aces in his hand
I was desperate enough
So I called him on his bluff
Still a hundred miles from Sutters Mill
Killed for just a dirty dollar bill
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Gold Star Mother
03:57
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Gold star mother
One morning in April, she said goodbye to her son
As he laced up his combat boots, Uncle Sam gave him a gun
To some far away country, he went to risk life and limb
Just a few short months later, the news she received was so grim.
(chorus)
There's a gold star mother with a love like no other
Her baby will never grow old
He left home a young man, defending homeland
His blue star's exchanged for a gold
On a cold winter’s night, a mother stares up at the moon
Through tears in December, she remembers one taken too soon
An empty chair at the table, no presents there under the tree
His courage and valor, left a family stricken with grief.
A flag and a candle, sit on her mantel these days
The pride that she feels in her heart, still won’t ease the pain
She prays for a world without war, and a peace that will last
Where a Gold Star Mother, just might be a thing of the past.
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Bibelhauser Louisville, Kentucky
Aaron Bibelhauser is a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist from Louisville, KY. In addition to writing songs recorded by award winning bluegrass artists including Del McCoury Band, Balsam Range, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, and The Wooks, he's taken first place in the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest and earned a nomination for the IBMA's prestigious Song Of The Year Award. ... more
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